Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.
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It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.Jessamyn West
You make what seems a simple choice choose a spouse or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a spouse or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.
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There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
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We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
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Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.
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